Hi, all - There's been a couple mentions of Zieglar's "Linux Firewalls" on this list recently, and I think that maybe I've found a bug in his scripts relating to the relationship of his mangle policies and the loopback interface.
Both a script that I wrote (very similar to his standalone example) and the standalone script itself (downloaded from the www.linux-firewall-tools.com site) break all communication via the loopback interface. For example, `ping localhost` and `lynx localhost` both fail. Only when I change the mangle policies to "ACCEPT" from "DROP" can I communicate with localhost. I don't claim to understand this, which is why I'm looking for other people's experiences with the scripts before I file a bug report with Newriders. However, looking over the other scripts provided, he sets the mangle policies to "DROP" and never uses the mangle table at all, so I imagine that there would be a similar problem with his optimized and gateway scripts as well. A few questions: 1) Have any of you had similar issues? If you have... 2) Why is the mangle table affecting the loopback interface? 3) What is an appropriate mangle rule to rectify the problem? I'd appreciate hearing from any of you who have thoughts on the subject. This may or may not be appropriate for the list - if you think it's not sufficiently Red Hat related, please reply privately. Thanks - Jeff -- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
